What do social workers get out of getting children taken away from homes?

[Monique]

Just wanted to get my disclaimer out of the way, because the term "social worker" is often used in vain. Are you talking about state level jobs? Because most states don't call them "social workers" because individuals with various degrees can quality for those jobs to include criminal justice, sociology, psychology, education etc.

So with that said, in the U.S., most social services state agencies do not have the authority to take children out of the home. This has to go through the courts. So there are checks and balances to the system in most states.

As far as the reason why there are people who may not do the right thing? That is life. You will meet the good and bad in every job on the market. It doesn't mean all people in those roles are out doing the wrong thing. The media tends to focus on the negative......and for the 3 staff doing the wrong thing, there are 100 staff working hard, diligentlly and doing the right thing.